E. Eduardo Romero P.
@eromero.bsky.social
Comparative Religion (@ Univ del Pacífico)
Cambios / Change en Religión en el Perú (PUCP)
Cambios / Change en Religión en el Perú (PUCP)
Religion in the Amazon is featured in The Times today, by Christina Lamb (renowned foreign reporter but with little time spent in the Amazon). Pegged on COP 30, she writes about the few survivors of Juma people now near Humaitá. Orgs cited: ILV, YWAM, SI, FUNAI, IBAMA.
The Sunday Times, Nov 9 2025
The Sunday Times, Nov 9 2025
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Religion in the Amazon is featured in The Times today, by Christina Lamb (renowned foreign reporter but with little time spent in the Amazon). Pegged on COP 30, she writes about the few survivors of Juma people now near Humaitá. Orgs cited: ILV, YWAM, SI, FUNAI, IBAMA.
The Sunday Times, Nov 9 2025
The Sunday Times, Nov 9 2025
Fascinating article on religious change: a Boston suburb no longer is majority Catholic save for the firehouse & the precinct. St Michael still guards the police, St Florian the firemen. Religious diversity impacts professions at different rates.
@benbrasch.bsky.social
Washington Post, Oct 26 2025
@benbrasch.bsky.social
Washington Post, Oct 26 2025
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Fascinating article on religious change: a Boston suburb no longer is majority Catholic save for the firehouse & the precinct. St Michael still guards the police, St Florian the firemen. Religious diversity impacts professions at different rates.
@benbrasch.bsky.social
Washington Post, Oct 26 2025
@benbrasch.bsky.social
Washington Post, Oct 26 2025
Some Catholics think 1960s' 2nd Vatican Council was too radical calling Leo a 'woke Protestant Catholic' for not resolving 2 dueling docs: Benedict's Summorum Pontificum vs Francis' Traditionis Custodes. Cited: theologian Andrea Grillo, blogger Brian Williams + clergy.
Wash Post Oct 20 2025, p 12
Wash Post Oct 20 2025, p 12
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Some Catholics think 1960s' 2nd Vatican Council was too radical calling Leo a 'woke Protestant Catholic' for not resolving 2 dueling docs: Benedict's Summorum Pontificum vs Francis' Traditionis Custodes. Cited: theologian Andrea Grillo, blogger Brian Williams + clergy.
Wash Post Oct 20 2025, p 12
Wash Post Oct 20 2025, p 12
🇮🇳India's PM Modi crafts religious overlay from Trump Tarrifs: Diwali, Hinduism's annual festival of lights, given tax break to spur gift-giving and purchases. (Also: kudos to @financialtimes.com for insisting on light double entendres on front page + inside.)
Financial Times, Oct 15 2025 A1
Financial Times, Oct 15 2025 A1
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🇮🇳India's PM Modi crafts religious overlay from Trump Tarrifs: Diwali, Hinduism's annual festival of lights, given tax break to spur gift-giving and purchases. (Also: kudos to @financialtimes.com for insisting on light double entendres on front page + inside.)
Financial Times, Oct 15 2025 A1
Financial Times, Oct 15 2025 A1
"Ireland has 13 new priests this year. Can the Catholic Church save itself?" The 7pp article insists survival is probable by importing priests, transforming what Church means. "We’re going to have a lesser priesthood, but we’re certainly not the last."
The Sunday Times Magazine (London), Oct 12 2025
The Sunday Times Magazine (London), Oct 12 2025
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Ireland has 13 new priests this year. Can the Catholic Church save itself?" The 7pp article insists survival is probable by importing priests, transforming what Church means. "We’re going to have a lesser priesthood, but we’re certainly not the last."
The Sunday Times Magazine (London), Oct 12 2025
The Sunday Times Magazine (London), Oct 12 2025
The Church of England designates Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the church in its 500 years. NYT is the only UK/USA newspaper to recognize the historicity of this event by placing her on A1.
Articles are from NYT, Guardian, The Times, WaPo, FT UK (not USA), WSJ.
Articles are from NYT, Guardian, The Times, WaPo, FT UK (not USA), WSJ.
October 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Church of England designates Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the church in its 500 years. NYT is the only UK/USA newspaper to recognize the historicity of this event by placing her on A1.
Articles are from NYT, Guardian, The Times, WaPo, FT UK (not USA), WSJ.
Articles are from NYT, Guardian, The Times, WaPo, FT UK (not USA), WSJ.
Local U.S. TV stations take on last week’s rapture.
🤔 Beyond the humor: it's an interesting look at the End of the World thru local color in North America. Religious demography can show how diverse forms of Christianity gets lived, narrated, broadcast, even dismissed.
John Oliver, HBO Sept 28 2025
🤔 Beyond the humor: it's an interesting look at the End of the World thru local color in North America. Religious demography can show how diverse forms of Christianity gets lived, narrated, broadcast, even dismissed.
John Oliver, HBO Sept 28 2025
September 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Local U.S. TV stations take on last week’s rapture.
🤔 Beyond the humor: it's an interesting look at the End of the World thru local color in North America. Religious demography can show how diverse forms of Christianity gets lived, narrated, broadcast, even dismissed.
John Oliver, HBO Sept 28 2025
🤔 Beyond the humor: it's an interesting look at the End of the World thru local color in North America. Religious demography can show how diverse forms of Christianity gets lived, narrated, broadcast, even dismissed.
John Oliver, HBO Sept 28 2025
Judaism has adapted tech (writing, printing, computing) for millennia.
🤔 I wonder if AI reshapes religions w/ written texts. As AI can search, summarize, remix texts better, who becomes the interpreter?
AI Isn't Replacing Rabbis - it's Saving Them
@washingtonpost.com, Sept 25 2025 wapo.st/42FPBQb
🤔 I wonder if AI reshapes religions w/ written texts. As AI can search, summarize, remix texts better, who becomes the interpreter?
AI Isn't Replacing Rabbis - it's Saving Them
@washingtonpost.com, Sept 25 2025 wapo.st/42FPBQb
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Judaism has adapted tech (writing, printing, computing) for millennia.
🤔 I wonder if AI reshapes religions w/ written texts. As AI can search, summarize, remix texts better, who becomes the interpreter?
AI Isn't Replacing Rabbis - it's Saving Them
@washingtonpost.com, Sept 25 2025 wapo.st/42FPBQb
🤔 I wonder if AI reshapes religions w/ written texts. As AI can search, summarize, remix texts better, who becomes the interpreter?
AI Isn't Replacing Rabbis - it's Saving Them
@washingtonpost.com, Sept 25 2025 wapo.st/42FPBQb
Islam was the world’s fastest growing religion from 2010 to 2020.
@conradhackett.bsky.social at @pewresearch.org
@conradhackett.bsky.social at @pewresearch.org
Islam was the world’s fastest growing religion from 2010 to 2020
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/10/islam-was-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religion-from-2010-to-2020/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/10/islam-was-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religion-from-2010-to-2020/
Islam was the world’s fastest-growing religion from 2010 to 2020
From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people.
www.pewresearch.org
September 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Islam was the world’s fastest growing religion from 2010 to 2020.
@conradhackett.bsky.social at @pewresearch.org
@conradhackett.bsky.social at @pewresearch.org
While global Catholic pop ⏫ 2x since 1970 # of priests has declined (WSJ on A1). Focus is on seminaries shrinking even in LA. But it's more than a staffing issue: how do individuals weigh identities in modernity; Catholics may add a twist but it seems like a general crisis in religious vocations.
September 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
While global Catholic pop ⏫ 2x since 1970 # of priests has declined (WSJ on A1). Focus is on seminaries shrinking even in LA. But it's more than a staffing issue: how do individuals weigh identities in modernity; Catholics may add a twist but it seems like a general crisis in religious vocations.
Pope Leo's first interview was w/ Crux this weekend & covered an array of topics incl: United Nations, World Cup, his own identity (1st Q: are you American or Latin American?). The Times placed him on the cover and focused on his comments economics and pay scales.
The Times (London), Sept 15 2025
The Times (London), Sept 15 2025
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Pope Leo's first interview was w/ Crux this weekend & covered an array of topics incl: United Nations, World Cup, his own identity (1st Q: are you American or Latin American?). The Times placed him on the cover and focused on his comments economics and pay scales.
The Times (London), Sept 15 2025
The Times (London), Sept 15 2025
The census bureau in Peru (INEI) decided against including a question on religion in the 2025 census. Peru has included this question in all national censuses going back to 1862 (save for the 2005 one, retaken in 2007). This is my plea to get the question re-inserted next time. (Univ. del Pacífico)
September 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The census bureau in Peru (INEI) decided against including a question on religion in the 2025 census. Peru has included this question in all national censuses going back to 1862 (save for the 2005 one, retaken in 2007). This is my plea to get the question re-inserted next time. (Univ. del Pacífico)
📊El Salvador Survey > Cath, Evang tied @ 39%; 19% None; 3% Other (a pattern w/ Indigenous pops - categories don't capture the local). By educ: primary / secondary mirrors society. In Higher ed, Cath rises noticeably wrt Evang. LA Religion shifts not only across generations, but also social spaces.
September 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
📊El Salvador Survey > Cath, Evang tied @ 39%; 19% None; 3% Other (a pattern w/ Indigenous pops - categories don't capture the local). By educ: primary / secondary mirrors society. In Higher ed, Cath rises noticeably wrt Evang. LA Religion shifts not only across generations, but also social spaces.
#ExMo ExMormons Go Viral, says WSJ on A1 this a.m. LDS "is facing a 21st c. reckoning, driven by social-media". Cites from John Dehlin, Justin Turman and (of course) Ryan Burge who says "Mormonism has a retention problem". # in US who identify as Mormon has almost halved since 2012.
WSJ Sept 4 2025
WSJ Sept 4 2025
September 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#ExMo ExMormons Go Viral, says WSJ on A1 this a.m. LDS "is facing a 21st c. reckoning, driven by social-media". Cites from John Dehlin, Justin Turman and (of course) Ryan Burge who says "Mormonism has a retention problem". # in US who identify as Mormon has almost halved since 2012.
WSJ Sept 4 2025
WSJ Sept 4 2025
Fantastic news about David Voas’ new website.🥂 He and @conradhackett.bsky.social are among those who consistently challenge how I think about religious identity change here in Latin America.
Good news--David Voas' seminal essay on the secular transition is now freely available on his new website: www.seculartransition.org
David wrote, "A transition is a permanent large-scale change. It is not cyclical or recurring; once out, the toothpaste will not go back into the tube."
David wrote, "A transition is a permanent large-scale change. It is not cyclical or recurring; once out, the toothpaste will not go back into the tube."
August 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Fantastic news about David Voas’ new website.🥂 He and @conradhackett.bsky.social are among those who consistently challenge how I think about religious identity change here in Latin America.
🇵🇪 Otra columna re: la falta de medición de religión en el censo. El autor mezcla una supuesta culpabilidad a la jerarquía de la iglesia católica por omisión, que es "estadística irrelevante", que el Papa va a dirigirse al tema.
La Herejía del Silencio
Luis Balazar García
Diario Uno, 25 agosto 2025
La Herejía del Silencio
Luis Balazar García
Diario Uno, 25 agosto 2025
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
🇵🇪 Otra columna re: la falta de medición de religión en el censo. El autor mezcla una supuesta culpabilidad a la jerarquía de la iglesia católica por omisión, que es "estadística irrelevante", que el Papa va a dirigirse al tema.
La Herejía del Silencio
Luis Balazar García
Diario Uno, 25 agosto 2025
La Herejía del Silencio
Luis Balazar García
Diario Uno, 25 agosto 2025
La Monde's cover article on the growth of French evangelicals incl profile of Une Famille qui Grandit, a Baptist church in Pontault-Combault with pastors Manuel Renard & Cédric Pallud; Valérie Duval-Poujol (Fédération Protestante); Sébastien Fath, sociologist / historian @ CNRS
Le Monde, 25 aug 2025
Le Monde, 25 aug 2025
August 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
La Monde's cover article on the growth of French evangelicals incl profile of Une Famille qui Grandit, a Baptist church in Pontault-Combault with pastors Manuel Renard & Cédric Pallud; Valérie Duval-Poujol (Fédération Protestante); Sébastien Fath, sociologist / historian @ CNRS
Le Monde, 25 aug 2025
Le Monde, 25 aug 2025
Reposted by E. Eduardo Romero P.
I'm flabbergasted how many people blast audio from phones in public. Shouldn't everyone know better?
Take this Pew Research quiz to see whether your views about acceptable public behavior are in sync with others: https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/which-public-behaviors-do-you-find-rude/
Take this Pew Research quiz to see whether your views about acceptable public behavior are in sync with others: https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/which-public-behaviors-do-you-find-rude/
Cursing Out Loud. Pets in Stores. Which Public Behaviors Do You Find Rude?
Cursing in public. Bringing pets into stores. Blasting music. Smoking near others. Find out if your etiquette views are typical for your age.
www.pewresearch.org
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm flabbergasted how many people blast audio from phones in public. Shouldn't everyone know better?
Take this Pew Research quiz to see whether your views about acceptable public behavior are in sync with others: https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/which-public-behaviors-do-you-find-rude/
Take this Pew Research quiz to see whether your views about acceptable public behavior are in sync with others: https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/which-public-behaviors-do-you-find-rude/
🇵🇪 Congressman Alejandro Muñante questions why Peru's 2025 census doesn't include a question on religion, in an op-ed today in the Expreso newspaper. However, he seems to be as focused on polemics as on social measures.
I offer a few reactions on Facebook: bit.ly/AM-response
I offer a few reactions on Facebook: bit.ly/AM-response
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
🇵🇪 Congressman Alejandro Muñante questions why Peru's 2025 census doesn't include a question on religion, in an op-ed today in the Expreso newspaper. However, he seems to be as focused on polemics as on social measures.
I offer a few reactions on Facebook: bit.ly/AM-response
I offer a few reactions on Facebook: bit.ly/AM-response
Protestantism expands in the Amazon, acc. to data from Brazil's 2024 census, highlighted by Samantha Pearson in the WSJ over the weekend. Evangelicals = 25% of Brazilians, 1/3 indigenous pop; are larger than the Cath pop in the states of Acre & Rondonia.
WSJ Aug 9 2025
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
WSJ Aug 9 2025
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
August 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Protestantism expands in the Amazon, acc. to data from Brazil's 2024 census, highlighted by Samantha Pearson in the WSJ over the weekend. Evangelicals = 25% of Brazilians, 1/3 indigenous pop; are larger than the Cath pop in the states of Acre & Rondonia.
WSJ Aug 9 2025
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
WSJ Aug 9 2025
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
A 6-page profile of Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno.
Of Francis: “When you would walk into a room, his face would light up in a smile ... I’ll miss his good humor, his gentle support.”
Also: Leo XIII, the 19th c. Pope, was the founder of the modern Vatican Observatory.
The New Yorker Aug 4 2025
Of Francis: “When you would walk into a room, his face would light up in a smile ... I’ll miss his good humor, his gentle support.”
Also: Leo XIII, the 19th c. Pope, was the founder of the modern Vatican Observatory.
The New Yorker Aug 4 2025
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A 6-page profile of Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno.
Of Francis: “When you would walk into a room, his face would light up in a smile ... I’ll miss his good humor, his gentle support.”
Also: Leo XIII, the 19th c. Pope, was the founder of the modern Vatican Observatory.
The New Yorker Aug 4 2025
Of Francis: “When you would walk into a room, his face would light up in a smile ... I’ll miss his good humor, his gentle support.”
Also: Leo XIII, the 19th c. Pope, was the founder of the modern Vatican Observatory.
The New Yorker Aug 4 2025
🇵🇪 My op-ed in Peru's La República this morning addressing the removal of the religion question from Peru’s 2025 national census. To understand and debate the role of religious transformation in our country, we need data that only a census can provide. Peru has included religion since 1862 census.
August 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🇵🇪 My op-ed in Peru's La República this morning addressing the removal of the religion question from Peru’s 2025 national census. To understand and debate the role of religious transformation in our country, we need data that only a census can provide. Peru has included religion since 1862 census.
USA Today publishes a 56pp celebration of Pope Leo XIV.
Nice to see 4 pages on Peru + a related Maryknoll advert.
(Half the pages of the 56pp product are advertisements incl centerfold by Fox Nation.)
Nice to see 4 pages on Peru + a related Maryknoll advert.
(Half the pages of the 56pp product are advertisements incl centerfold by Fox Nation.)
July 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
USA Today publishes a 56pp celebration of Pope Leo XIV.
Nice to see 4 pages on Peru + a related Maryknoll advert.
(Half the pages of the 56pp product are advertisements incl centerfold by Fox Nation.)
Nice to see 4 pages on Peru + a related Maryknoll advert.
(Half the pages of the 56pp product are advertisements incl centerfold by Fox Nation.)
Time publishes an 8-page cover profile of Pope Leo, focusing on childhood in Chicago, high school in Holland, MI, college at Villanova then Catholic Theological Union.
(Parochial Take: 2 paragraphs + 1 photograph of his 20 years in Peru. It's a USA magazine.)
Tima, July 28 2025 by Belinda Luscombe
(Parochial Take: 2 paragraphs + 1 photograph of his 20 years in Peru. It's a USA magazine.)
Tima, July 28 2025 by Belinda Luscombe
July 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Time publishes an 8-page cover profile of Pope Leo, focusing on childhood in Chicago, high school in Holland, MI, college at Villanova then Catholic Theological Union.
(Parochial Take: 2 paragraphs + 1 photograph of his 20 years in Peru. It's a USA magazine.)
Tima, July 28 2025 by Belinda Luscombe
(Parochial Take: 2 paragraphs + 1 photograph of his 20 years in Peru. It's a USA magazine.)
Tima, July 28 2025 by Belinda Luscombe
Paolo Benanti's take on Catholic Church & AI.
> Pope Francis: "We're not living [in] an era of change but a change of era."
> Vatican this year hosted execs fr Google, Meta, Anthropic, Palantir for conference on AI, ethics, corp governance.
Benanti is tech advisor to Vatican.
@pbenanti.bsky.social
> Pope Francis: "We're not living [in] an era of change but a change of era."
> Vatican this year hosted execs fr Google, Meta, Anthropic, Palantir for conference on AI, ethics, corp governance.
Benanti is tech advisor to Vatican.
@pbenanti.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Paolo Benanti's take on Catholic Church & AI.
> Pope Francis: "We're not living [in] an era of change but a change of era."
> Vatican this year hosted execs fr Google, Meta, Anthropic, Palantir for conference on AI, ethics, corp governance.
Benanti is tech advisor to Vatican.
@pbenanti.bsky.social
> Pope Francis: "We're not living [in] an era of change but a change of era."
> Vatican this year hosted execs fr Google, Meta, Anthropic, Palantir for conference on AI, ethics, corp governance.
Benanti is tech advisor to Vatican.
@pbenanti.bsky.social